The Internet Just Face-Planted — And Amazon’s Holding the Cord
Snapchat’s dead. Roblox won’t load. Canva’s crying. Even Alexa’s pretending she didn’t hear you.
It’s not you — it’s Amazon Web Services (AWS), the invisible backbone of half the internet, choking on its own cables.
On October 20, 2025, AWS confirmed “increased error rates” in its US-East region, triggering a massive outage that disrupted major platforms including Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, Canva, and even Alexa. The issue started around midnight Pacific, and by morning, social media feeds had gone silent while dashboards across the globe screamed errors.
When AWS sneezes, the internet catches a cold. The company powers millions of websites, apps, and smart devices worldwide — so when it goes down, so does half the digital economy.
The fallout: stalled shopping carts, glitched banking apps, silent smart homes, and businesses losing millions by the hour.
Experts say the chaos is a wake-up call for a world that’s become too dependent on one cloud provider. With AWS controlling over 30% of the global cloud market, one regional failure can ripple through every corner of the web.
The outage has sparked new conversations about decentralization and the fragility of the “cloud” we rely on so much.
For now, the systems are recovering — but the question remains:
> Who still trusts the sky after this?